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CLOUD ATLAS: Lana Wachowsky & Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowsky: OCT 26
Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cloud-atlas-poised-international-comeback-389267
Cloud Atlas
Poised for International Comeback
The fantasy epic grosses more than
$10 million in its first international
berths in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.
by Scott Roxborough
6:39 AM PST 11/12/2012
COLOGNE, Germany – Cloud Atlas may have fallen to earth domestically but the fantasy epic could be reborn oversees if its performance in Russia and Ukraine is any indication.
The ambitious multilayered drama directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and German helmer Tom Tykwer grossed $9.71 million in Russia and Ukraine over the weekend, the first two territories on its international roll out. Together, the two Eastern European markets outperformed Cloud Atlas ' U.S. bow, where the Warner Bros. title earned about $9.6 million on its opening weekend.
The film's impressive $9.1 million (RUB 282 million) opener in Russia, on more than 1,400 screens, was enough to secure the number one slot in the territory. The film beat out all competitors including Ben Affleck's Argo, which knocked Cloud Atlas into second slot in its U.S. debut. Cloud Atlas ' Russian bow, is blockbuster size for the territory. The new James Bond, Skyfall, opened at $8.6 million in Russia.
“I always believed in the film...we treated it like a blockbuster in Russia and tremendous support from the exhibitors and and our studio partner 20th Century Fox Russia,” Alexander van Dulmen, whose A Film Russia released Cloud Atlas. “It was a tremendous marketing achievement. Personally, I'm extremely pleased that a brainy movie like this one has done so well in Russia.”
Van Dulmen also praised Ukrainian distributor B&H Film who bowed Cloud Atlas on 120 screens.
Cloud Atlas ' strong performance in Russia bodes well for the film as its picks up its international roll-out. X Verleih, the distribution arm of Cloud Atlas ' Berlin-based producers X Filme, will bow the film on around 600 screens in Germany November 15. The release, which X Verleih is handling together with Warner Bros. Germany, is a tentpole equivalent in the territory. Sony Pictures released Skyfall on 789 copies in Germany.
Commenting on Cloud Atlas ' strong international start, the film's producers, Stefan Arndt and Grant Hill, said they were “delighted that our the first international releases are repaying our belief in this special film.” In addition to Russia and Ukraine, Cloud Atlas pulled in an additional $1 million from Turkey.
All eyes are now on Germany, where Cloud Atlas will have to face off against Skyfall. The new Bond has delivered the best first and second weekend ever for the franchise in Germany and has sold some 4 million tickets so far in the territory.
Argo, which debuted at number six in Germany on 150 copies, looks less threatening to Cloud Atlas here. The German release of 3-D actioner Dredd, which Universum is bowing together with Disney next weekend, however, could siphon off a few German sci-fi fans that would otherwise end up in the Cloud Atlas camp.
In the U.S., Cloud Atlas has so far grossed around $23 million after 17 days.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Cloud Atlas
Release dates
Canada 8 September 2012 (Toronto International Film Festival)
Canada 26 October 2012
India 26 October 2012
Turkey 26 October 2012
USA 26 October 2012
Pakistan 27 October 2012
Netherlands 5 November 2012 (Amsterdam Film Week)
Belarus 8 November 2012
Kazakhstan 8 November 2012
Russia 8 November 2012
Bulgaria 9 November 2012
Iceland 9 November 2012
Germany 15 November 2012
Czech Republic 22 November 2012
Greece 22 November 2012
Hungary 22 November 2012
Slovenia 22 November 2012
Lithuania 23 November 2012
Poland 23 November 2012
Netherlands 29 November 2012
Portugal 29 November 2012
Thailand 29 November 2012
Estonia 30 November 2012
Sweden 30 November 2012
Brazil 25 December 2012
Norway 26 December 2012
Chile 27 December 2012
Hong Kong 3 January 2013
Argentina 3 January 2013
Italy 3 January 2013
Denmark 17 January 2013
Singapore 17 January 2013
Australia 21 February 2013
Ireland 22 February 2013
Spain 22 February 2013
UK 22 February 2013
Belgium 13 March 2013
France 13 March 2013
Japan 15 March 2013
Front-Ranger:
I'm enjoying the book. The first story was a bit of a slog, but once I was 20 pages in it became engaging, when Autua appeared. I love his use of I: "You kill I."
Here's a lovely passage from the second story where Bruges is being described:
"Sixsmith...arrive in that six o'clock in the morning gnossiennesque hour. Lose yourself in the city's rickety streets, blind canals, wrought iron gates, uninhabited courtyards--may I go on? Why thank you--leery Gothic carapaces, Ararat roofs, shrubbery tufted brick spires, medeival overhangs, laundry sagging from windows, cobbled whirlpools that suck your eye in, clockwork princes and chipped princesses striking their hours, sooty doves, and three or four octaves of bells, some sober, some bright."
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 15, 2012, 10:33:45 pm ---I'm enjoying the book. The first story was a bit of a slog, but once I was 20 pages in it became engaging, when Autua appeared. I love his use of I: "You kill I."
Here's a lovely passage from the second story where Bruges is being described:
"Sixsmith...arrive in that six o'clock in the morning gnossiennesque hour. Lose yourself in the city's rickety streets, blind canals, wrought iron gates, uninhabited courtyards--may I go on? Why thank you--leery Gothic carapaces, Ararat roofs, shrubbery tufted brick spires, medeival overhangs, laundry sagging from windows, cobbled whirlpools that suck your eye in, clockwork princes and chipped princesses striking their hours, sooty doves, and three or four octaves of bells, some sober, some bright."
--- End quote ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnossiennes_(Satie)
Gnossiennes (Satie)
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"Gnossienne" is the name given to several piano pieces by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century.
Characteristics
Satie's coining of the word "gnossienne" was one of the rare occasions when a composer used a new term to indicate a new "type" of composition. Satie had and would use many novel names for his compositions ("vexations", "croquis et agaceries" and so on). "Ogive," for example, had been the name of an architectural element until Satie used it as the name for a composition, the Ogives. "Gnossienne," however, was a word that did not exist before Satie used it as a title for a composition. The word appears to be derived from "gnosis"; Satie was involved in gnostic sects and movements at the time that he began to compose the Gnossiennes. However, some published versions claim that the word derives from Cretan "knossos" or "gnossus" and link the Gnossiennes to Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur myth. Several archeological sites relating to that theme were famously excavated around the time that Satie composed the Gnossiennes.
The Gnossiennes were composed by Satie in the decade following the composition of the Trois Sarabandes (1887) and the Trois Gymnopédies (1888). Like these Sarabandes and Gymnopédies, the Gnossiennes are often considered dances. It is not certain that this qualification comes from Satie himself – the sarabande and the Gymnopaedia were at least historically known as dances.
The musical vocabulary of the Gnossiennes is a continuation of that of the Gymnopédies (a development that had started with the 1886 Ogives → Sarabandes → Gymnopédies → Gnossiennes ) later leading to more harmonic experimentation in compositions like the Danses Gothiques. These series of compositions are all at the core of Satie's characteristic 19th century style, and in this sense differ from his early salon compositions (like the 1885 "Waltz" compositions published in 1887), his turn-of-the-century cabaret compositions (like the Je te Veux Waltz), and his post-Schola Cantorum piano solo compositions, starting with the Préludes flasques in 1912.
(and etc.)
Front-Ranger:
Great word! I'm just POed that I can't use it in Words With Friends. Too many letters. I discovered another great word today...wartycabbage. Don't you love it?
Suddenly I think I understand why Cloud Atlas underperformed at the box office recently. It seems like many of my friends were saving up their movie watching time for Twilight Zone. Eventually it will find its audience I'm convinced!
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